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...sense, the publicity buildup has been overhyped. Yes, the televised speech Bill Clinton makes to a joint session of Congress this week will be the most important of his still young presidency. And yes, the health-care program he will finally officially unveil (more or less -- it is still changing) would mark the biggest upheaval in social policy in decades. But the speech will not quite kick off the widely advertised Battle of the Century. More like the Policy Seminar of the Century...
...visit. Reed, a little-known analyst working in a dimly lit Washington campaign office for dark-horse candidate Bill Clinton, listened politely as the three veteran lobbyists from a major pharmaceutical company pleaded with him to delete price controls from the health-care proposal that Clinton was soon to unveil. "If you guys can afford to send three high-priced lobbyists to buttonhole somebody like me," Reed told his visitors, "then you are charging too much for drugs...
...precise opposite -- the way "those fine, fine people at General Electric" on his old show usually meant Dave had had another dustup with his bonehead corporate bosses. Letterman's new headquarters -- located a few stories above New York City's Ed Sullivan Theater, where he is about to unveil his new late-night talk show on CBS -- are clean, all right, but not without intrusion. The smell of roasting chicken wafts up every afternoon from the fast-food place downstairs and causes most of the staff to make faces. "I don't mind it," he says cheerily. "You build...
...Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will travel to Richmond, Va., this weekend to unveil a memorial he designed in honor of tennis great Arthur R. Ashe...
...Douglas Wilder of Virginia will preside over the ceremony Counter said yesterday. Ashe's wife, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, will unveil the memorial with Counter, and the Rev. Andrew Young will dedicate the structure. Poet Maya Angelou, who spoke at President Clinton's inauguration, will deliver a memorial reading Counter said